I'm in the UK, so the TV coverage is based, naturally, mostly upon the British athletes. I thought it would be good to have a seperate thread to the offical Athens one, just to note medals won by Aussies. All Olympic discussion should be on the other thread, and this one is just for posting news of medals.

It's tough over here not knowing all of the Aussie achievements. And the Brits never seem to show a medal table.

So far we have,

Day 1

Gold - Ian Thorpe in the swimming, mens 400m
Silver - Grant Hackett in the same event

Gold - Swimming, womens 4 * 100 relay, great race girls, especially the last swimmer who started behind the American and won convincinly.

Bronze - Diving, womens sync 3m

Bronze - Diving, mens 10m

2 Gold
1 Silver
2 Bronze

Another medal,

Bronze, Shooting, Adam Vella in the mens trap

Great news, well done Sara Carrigan

Gold in the womens cycling road race.

http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=2044252#post2044252

Aussies shine with two more golds
Sportal

http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/054998news.jpg

Australia remains second on the medal table, behind China, after collecting two more gold medals on Day Two of the Athens Olympics.

Despite her credentials, cyclist Sara Carrigan was something of a surprise winner in the women's road race, in which fellow Aussies Oenone Wood (fourth) and Olivia Gollan (12th) were also well placed.

Then Petria Thomas became a true golden girl when she claimed her first individual Olympic gold medal with a brilliant finish in the 100m butterfly final, making it her second gold of these games following her part in the 4x100m victory on Day One.

Earlier in the day Victorian Adam Vella continued Australia's recent 'tradition' of standing on the podium at the conclusion of the men's trap.



Vella, at his first Games, shot an outstanding final to win the bronze medal, making up somewhat for Michael Diamond falling short in his quest for a third successive gold medal in the event. Diamond finished eighth.

The women's 10m air pistol was also completed, with Lalita Yauhleuskaya finishing equal 21st, with a score of 379, and Linda Ryan three points back in a share of 28th place.

In other events which saw medals decided, fencer Evelyn Halls was 14th in the women's individual epee and judoka Heath Young won his opening bout before being beaten by the eventual bronze medalist in the 66kg class. He then went out in the repechage round.

At the Schinias rowing course, the Australian women's lightweight double sculls crew, Sally Newmarch and Amber Halliday, set a new world-best time in the heats.

The men's lightweight fours also won their heat to go straight through to the semi-finals, and the men's quad scull finished third in its heat and is also into a semi.

The women's quad scull was also third in its heat while the women's eight finished fourth, but the men's eight won its heat and is through to the final.

Back at the pool, Brooke Hanson qualified fastest for the final of the women's 100m breaststroke with Leisel Jones second-fastest just 0.34s behind.

Ian Thorpe was the second-fastest qualifier for the men's 200m freestyle final, behind Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband, and Grant Hackett clocked the fifth-best time.

Meanwhile Matt Welsh was the sixth-fastest through to the final of the men's 100m backstroke.

In tennis, Wayne Arthurs posted a straight-sets win over Romanian Victor Hanescu, but Sam Stosur went out at the hands of American Chanda Rubin.

The day started well for the team sports, with the men's water polo team beating Egypt 14-3, and the Kookaburras opening their hockey campaign with a 4-1 win over New Zealand, but it went downhill from there.

The baseballers put up a good showing against the powerful Cubans, losing 4-1, and the men's volleyball team also went down fighting against a highly-rated opponent, Brazil, taking the first set from the gold-medal fancies.

But things got a little embarrassing for the softball team, buoyed by its opening day win over Japan. The mercy rule was invoked when the Aussie Spirit was down 10-0 to the USA after five innings.

It wasn't much better for the Boomers, with host nation Greece running away to a 76-54 win to end a relatively good Australian day on a low.

Gold - Womens Trap shooting.

We're now one silver behind China, and won the most medals over all. :cheers:

Rank....G S B T
01 CHN 5 2 1 8 China
02 AUS 5 1 3 9 Australia
03 JPN 4 1 0 5 Japan
04 ITA 2 1 0 3 Italy
05 TUR 2 0 1 3 Turkey
05 UKR 2 0 1 3 Ukraine
07 USA 1 4 3 8 United States
08 RUS 1 3 2 6 Russia
09 FRA 1 2 2 5 France
10 HUN 1 1 1 3 Hungry

Greeks yet to win a medal.

Aussie always slow down towards the middle of the game

yeah, we always go well in first week because of all the swimming events but its a shame when week 2 comes and we lack with descent athletes.
we need some afro-american steroid runners! USA can have them why cant we??? lol
anyway we will get 2 more gold tonight !
Thorpie in 200m -race of games . im actually waking for that one at 2;45,
& 3am for lethal leisel in breaststoke!

The 200m is going to be incredible, I'm counting down the time, it's on at 5.43pm London time.

Damn timezones... puts all the good stuff in the middle of the night.

If only the world was flat and the sun went around the earth, then that way it would be the same time all around the world and we would be able to watch a final on TV without needing to alter sleep patterns.

The 200m is going to be incredible, I'm counting down the time, it's on at 5.43pm London time.
I guess thats 12.43am Perth Time

What a race, well done the Thorpedo,

Gold, mens 200m Freestyle

Plus the girls in the 100m Breast Stroke

Silver to Brooke Hansen
Bronze to Leisel Jones

That makes the count

6 Gold
2 Silver
4 Bronze

Medals

Rank
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Gold NOC NOC Name Total Rank
by
Total
1 CHN China 10 4 1 15 1
2 AUS Australia 6 2 5 13 =2
3 JPN Japan 5 1 1 7 =5
4 USA United States 3 5 5 13 =2
5 FRA France 2 2 3 7 =5
6 ITA Italy 2 2 1 5 =7
=7 TUR Turkey 2 0 1 3 =10
=7 UKR Ukraine 2 0 1 3 =10
9 RUS Russia 1 5 2 8 4
10 GER Germany 1 2 1 4 9
11 HUN Hungary 1 1 1 3 =10
=12 KOR Korea 1 0 2 3 =10
=12 THA Thailand 1 0 2 3 =10
14 GRE Greece 1 0 1 2 =16
15 RSA South Africa 1 0 0 1 =22
16 NED Netherlands 0 2 3 5 =7
=17 PRK DPR Korea 0 2 0 2 =16
=17 POL Poland 0 2 0 2 =16
19 SVK Slovakia 0 1 1 2 =16
=20 AUT Austria 0 1 0 1 =22
=20 GEO Georgia 0 1 0 1 =22
=20 GBR Great Britain 0 1 0 1 =22
=20 INA Indonesia 0 1 0 1 =22
=20 POR Portugal 0 1 0 1 =22
=20 SCG Serbia/Monteneg 0 1 0 1 =22
=20 ESP Spain 0 1 0 1 =22
=20 ZIM Zimbabwe 0 1 0 1 =22
28 CUB Cuba 0 0 3 3 =10
=29 BEL Belgium 0 0 2 2 =16
=29 BUL Bulgaria 0 0 2 2 =16
=31 ARG Argentina 0 0 1 1 =22
=31 BRA Brazil 0 0 1 1 =22
=31 CAN Canada 0 0 1 1 =22
=31 COL Colombia 0 0 1 1 =22
=31 CZE Czech Republic 0 0 1 1 =22
=31 MGL Mongolia 0 0 1 1 =22
=31 ROM Romania 0 0 1 1 =22

Lets enjoy having the upperhand on the Americans with the medal talley as long as we can !!!!!!

Bronze in the mens 3m syncronised diving

6 gold
2 Silver
5 Bronze

Tough day, dissapointed that we didn't get gold in the men's 4 * 200 freestyle. Thorpe did well, but he had too much to chase to win. Still silver is good as well.

6 Gold
3 Silver
5 Bronze

yes i got up to watch it. the middle two swimmers, klim and other guy really let us down. thorp had way to much to do and the american swimmer was too far infront. bummer.
they were so disapointed after race., they really wanted that gold!
Thorpie qulified 8th fastest for tommorrws 100m but since his not a spirnter he was lucky to make final. hope he walks away with another medal but it will be tough!

http://foxsports.news.com.au/olympics/story/0,9744,10485991-35145,00.html

Medal count favours Australia
August 18, 2004

A NEW spin on the Olympic Games medal tally has put Australia well ahead of China and the United States after four days of competition – but behind the United Arab Emirates.

Number-crunchers at the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Canberra have calculated an alternative medal tally taking each country's population into account as well as the number of medals.

Calculated on raw numbers, Australia was relegated to third place on the medal table after the US struck back in the pool and grabbed second spot, behind China.

But the ABS said Australia's tally of six gold medals, or one for every 3.4 million Australian residents, put Australia in second place when population was considered.

The tiny United Arab Emirates, which took out a shooting gold overnight, was first with one gold medal and three million residents.

The United States, with 49.5 million people for every gold, came in 14th and China – the world's most populous nation – was 18th, managing one gold medal for every 131.3 million residents.

Host nation Greece was ranked third on the ABS alternative table, followed by Switzerland, Hungary, Romania and the Ukraine.

Country, Gold, Population, Population `000 per gold 1. United Arab Emirates 1, 3,049,000, 3,049,000
2. Australia 6, 20,164,000, 3,361,000
3. Greece 2, 10,963,000, 5,482,000
4. Switzerland 1, 7,160,000, 7,160,000
5. Hungary 1, 9,830,000, 9,830,000
6. Romania 2, 22,278,000, 11,139,000
7. Ukraine 3, 48,163,000, 16,054,000
8. Japan 6, 127,738,000, 21,290,000
9. Italy 2, 57,310,000, 28,655,000
10. France 2, 60,428,000, 30,214,000
11. Turkey 2, 72,298,000, 36,149,000
12. South Africa 1, 45,058,000, 45,058,000
13. Korea (South) 1, 47,913,000, 47,913,000
14. United States 6, 297,031,000, 49,505,000
15. Thailand 1, 63,450,000, 63,450,000
16. Russia 2, 142,365,000, 71,183,000
17. Germany 1, 82,504,000, 82,504,000
18. China 10, 1,312,861,000, 131,286,000

NOT A BAD NIGHT IN THE POOL~! Petria Thomas got piped at end to get a silver!
Thorpie got a bronze in a race he qualified slowest in! he was coming last at the turn of the 100m and then turned on after burners to race in just behind hoogie to claim his 4th medal!
ALos Jodie henry set a new world record in 100m free semi, but poor old libby lenton failed to qualify for tonights final!
also lots of 4th places in other sports

Go Jodie!

Hopefully she DOESNT just chuck a "Liesel" and not emulate her WR semi final performance in the final.

Is it just me... but ive noticed Liesel is a VERY SORE LOSER. She used to cry alot but yeh shes a bad loser.

poor old leisel is suffering from a form of swimmers block where they fail to swim when they need to pull a big one.! i totally understand why she would be a bad looser. lets see, this is her 2nd olympics, she is current world record holder + world championship winner but yet fails to emulate it in the finals. i really hope she wins the 200mbreat tommorrow as she really does deserve it.she is still young (18) and she doesnt understand the whole concept of olympic swimming and the main reason is to compete and do your best, even though a gold medal would be nice.
i think Jodie henry will win 100m . she is awesome and killing it.very focused

Bronze in the archery for Tim Cuddihy, well done

6 Gold
4 Silver
7 Bronze

Silver in the womens 200m Breaststroke for Leisel Jones, looked like she was going to win for a long way, but just got beat by the American girl Beard.

6 G
5 S
7 B

what did i tell ya! damn, poor old leisal bridesmaid again!! damn, she was winning for 199m of the 200m race. bloody glamour girl beard clipped at the end. should of seen look on her face. oh well maybe beijing will be her time.
I knew Jodie henry would win her 100m which is great! first time we have had that race since dawnie back in 56.
our count now is
g7
s5
b7

Good to see we finally got off that '6' mark for gold.

Nathan Deakes gets a bronze in the mens 20km walk.

Silly event, but a medal is a medal.

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not time for alarm bells but grant hacketts heat swim for 1500m was pretty dodgy. he got 15:01 but the more worrying fact is that he looked stuffed after it. im sure he'll pull it out when it counts in the final though

Yeah but remember Perkins got lane 8 for the final of the Atlanta games. I wouldn't be too worried about Hackett in the heat because he'd be mad to go all out and smash records in a heat. He said after the race that he did try to relax and time it. He was just 1 second over 15 minutes and that aint bad at all for a heat.

believe me when i say Hacket will blitz them in 1500m. its his race! has been for years!
i cant imagine a more torterous event than 30 laps of 50m pool.
i reckon heugil and hawke might get medals tommorrow morn!

wow! just got our 8th GOLD!! Anna Meares in 500m time trial! ALSO WORLD RECORD!! youngest ever women cyclist to win gold!! 20yrd
girl from QLD! :cheers:

You just beat me to it Cul, wish I was watching instead of relying on internet updates

yeah talk about pressure. she had to do a world record if she was to beat chinese cyclist! and she flew>>>

What an hour!

Australia wins gold in the Men's Double Sculls Final in the Rowing!!

Jana has won her heat and qualified for the semis in the 400metre hurdles. She was jogging in the last 100m!

thank god the swimming's winding down! I can only handle so much of Bruce bloody macavney.

Go the formidables!

3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze all up yesterday and last night. Not bad.

yeah top night in pool! hacket hanging on to fierce rivallry in the 1500m, and successfully defending his title. http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/055325news.jpg
also womens medley relay smashing world record ending with a high for all 4 girls, leisal Jones FINALLY getting an olympic GOLD!!! phew!http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/promotion/000763promotion.jpg

11g
7s
11b

were now sitting in fourth behind japan.

If you want most up to date medal tallies go to athens2004.com

wow what a night last was! more gold! first diving gold since 1924!
diver Chantelle Newbery has won gold in the women's 10m platform, and her teammate Loudy Tourky took bronze.
http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/055385news.jpg

hey what about the chick that laid down in the womens 8 rowing?? wtf??
we would of come 3rd but 600m to go she thru in the towel. very unaustralian.lol
also our women softballers are in gold medal playoff with pesci USA.
JANA PITTMAN is into final of 400m hurd! amazing really. im not sure she will win gold but might get a medal!

aussie medal tally
G12
S8
B12

The Athens 2004 website is really great - quite easy to find each sport & schedule + results etc..

If we can grab the Mens Team Cycling medal tonight we might finally go past Japan back into 3rd spot !!! I can't believe how many medals the japs have won..

Jane Seville got a bronze in the 20km walk. Makes up a bit for the DQ near the finnish line in Sydney.

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hey i watched Dream tonight with roy & Hg which is always fantastic, and they quoted >
if Australia had population of USA our medal tally would be as follows>
G168
S112
B182
total-462
lol

Gold in the Cycling mens 4000m team pusuit. Great race, just watched it at work with some of my pommy workmates.

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Silver in the womens softball, the Aussie team losing to the Americans 5-1 in the final. The US are just about invincible in this, and at least we were the first team able to score a run against them in this competition.

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Vely intelesting stats from the ABS

ABS medal tally puts Australia on top after day 9


On 18 August, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released an alternative view of the traditional Olympic medal tally to take into account the populations of competing nations.

The ABS said the traditional measure of medals as a 'raw score' did not take into account the population of the competing country, a possible factor in the ability of nations to field medal winning athletes. When this was considered, it presented a different picture to the traditional measure.

The ABS analysis shows that Australia's tally at the close of day 9 events equates to one Gold Medal for each 1,680,000 of the population. This ranks Australia in first place. Using this methodology, the rank order of countries using Population per Gold Medal is as follows:


MEDAL TALLY BY WORLD POPULATION
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Country Medals Won Population Population Population
(Ranked by Population per Gold Medal) (As at close of competition day 9) per Gold Medal per Medal

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Gold Silver Bronze Total '000 '000 '000

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1. Australia 12 8 12 32 20,164 1,680 630
2. New Zealand 2 0 0 2 3,902 1,951 1,951
3. Norway 2 0 0 2 4,551 2,276 2,276
4. Georgia 2 1 0 3 5,073 2,537 1,691
5. Slovakia 2 2 1 5 5,407 2,704 1,081
6. Greece 4 1 3 8 10,963 2,741 1,370
7. Sweden 3 0 1 4 8,887 2,962 2,222
8. United Arab Emirates 1 0 0 1 3,049 3,049 3,049
9. Hungary 3 4 1 8 9,830 3,277 1,229
10. Romania 6 3 2 11 22,278 3,713 2,025
11. Belarus 2 3 6 11 9,854 4,927 896
12. Denmark 1 0 5 6 5,373 5,373 896
13. Netherlands 3 6 8 17 16,220 5,407 954
14. Switzerland 1 0 1 2 7,160 7,160 3,580
15. France 8 8 7 23 60,428 7,554 2,627
16. Bulgaria 1 1 5 7 7,830 7,830 1,119
17. Chile 2 0 1 3 15,993 7,997 5,331
18. Ukraine 6 2 5 13 48,163 8,027 3,705
19. Italy 7 6 7 20 57,310 8,187 2,866
20. Germany 10 9 12 31 82,504 8,250 2,661
21. Korea (South) 5 10 5 20 47,913 9,583 2,396
22. Japan 13 6 7 26 127,738 9,826 4,913
23. Belgium 1 0 2 3 10,337 10,337 3,446
24. Great Britain 5 7 7 19 59,416 11,883 3,127
25. Zimbabwe 1 1 1 3 12,900 12,900 4,300
26. United States 21 21 15 57 297,031 14,144 5,211
27. Poland 2 2 3 7 38,547 19,274 5,507
28. Russia 7 13 16 36 142,365 20,338 3,955
29. Turkey 3 0 1 4 72,298 24,099 18,075
30. Thailand 2 0 2 4 63,450 31,725 15,863
31. Canada 1 2 1 4 31,731 31,731 7,933
32. South Africa 1 1 2 4 45,058 45,058 11,265
33. China 22 14 10 46 1,312,861 59,676 28,540
34. Ethiopia 1 1 0 2 72,469 72,469 36,235
35. Brazil 1 0 2 3 180,598 180,598 60,199
36. Indonesia 1 1 2 4 222,562 222,562 55,641
37. Estonia 0 1 1 2 1,309 655
38. Slovenia 0 1 2 3 1,981 660
39. Croatia 0 2 2 4 4,413 1,103
40. Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 1 1 1,307 1,307
41. Cuba 0 2 6 8 11,323 1,415
42. Austria 0 4 1 5 8,116 1,623
43. Czech Republic 0 3 3 6 10,227 1,705
44. Mongolia 0 0 1 1 2,634 2,634
45. Jamaica 0 0 1 1 2,677 2,677
46. Lithuania 0 1 0 1 3,421 3,421
47. Azerbaijan 0 0 2 2 8,453 4,227
48. Eritrea 0 0 1 1 4,307 4,307
49. Portugal 0 2 0 2 10,067 5,034
50. Finland 0 1 0 1 5,215 5,215
51. DPR Korea (North) 0 3 1 4 22,754 5,689
52. Spain 0 6 1 7 41,098 5,871
53. Israel 0 0 1 1 6,556 6,556
54. Hong Kong (S.A.R.) 0 1 0 1 6,742 6,742
55. Serbia-Montenegro 0 1 0 1 10,521 10,521
56. Chinese Taipei 0 1 1 2 22,794 11,397
57. Kazakhstan 0 1 0 1 15,419 15,419
58. Argentina 0 0 2 2 38,864 19,432
59. Kenya 0 1 0 1 32,389 32,389
60. Colombia 0 0 1 1 44,904 44,904
61. India 0 1 0 1 1,080,921 1,080,921

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Data sources:
Australian population - Australian Bureau of Statistics
Other country populations estimates are based on United Nations Population Division figures
Medal tally, official games web site:http://www.athens2004.com/en/OlympicMedals/medals

yah! were coming first! lol
were doing so well atm!
but i reckon jana Pitman isnt good enough for gold. she only qualified 6th fastest for thursdays final. but i reckon she will get bronze maybe? not bad for someone who was virtually out of the games 2 weeks ago!

What the heck is going on with the Japanese ??? They are winning bloody heaps of medals !! We should be in 3rd pozzie after last night but they had people in 3 of the 4 wrestling finals ..

Both Beach Volleyball teams crashed out too - so it's gonna be up to Anna Meares & the Opals & Jana to add to our Gold tally !

Gday ,

I don't care what anyone thinks of me in saying this comment , but , If there is one country i hate losing to as an Australian, thats definitely the USA ! :rant:

( And i bet you there is heaps of Australian's out there that agree with me too )

I don't know why , but it absolutely shit me to tears when we lost the softball to them last night ! I hope to God they don't win the Basketball , especially the Mens !

PS~ And i agree with the above ! if Australia had 250 million people , ( No , ACTUALLY, if we had 100 million people ) we would win almost every gold medal on offer i reckon ! :banana2:

Cheers

Lozza :bowtie:

Aussie's into the Gold medal game for baseball believe it or not. Beat Japan 1-0. I think A-Brain would be happy about that :)

Do you think that Australia cares a little too much about the olympics - the other 3 (US, Japan and Chine) are countries with massive populations and a huge pool of talent, Australia has 20 million people and a steriod injecting room in Adelaide! I think we should be extremely proud that our athletes have done as well as they have. In sports I wouldn't have expected either like cycling, softball and diving.

Australia has been one of the strongest Cycling nations for a while.

And of course Australia doesn't care too much about the Olympics, it's the main event.

Hey, has Michael Diamond competed in his shooting event yet? Havent heard anything about him.

Diamond didn't get a medal, but Adam Vella got a bronze in the same event, and Suzanne Balogh got a gold in the women's event.

2 more medals in the Cycling.

Bronze to Anna Meares in the sprint

Gold to Ryan Bayley who came from behind to win the sprint gold 2-1

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A great final race to Ryan Bailey, I thought he'd lost it at the final straight. I reckon my brother and I woke everyone in our apartment block up with a piercing "YEAAAAAAH!!!" when Ryan came through in the end. :)

Only one more day of cycling so I don't know where the medals for Australia will come in from there on in...

A great final race to Ryan Bailey, I thought he'd lost it at the final straight. I reckon my brother and I woke everyone in our apartment block up with a piercing "YEAAAAAAH!!!" when Ryan came through in the end. :)

Only one more day of cycling so I don't know where the medals for Australia will come in from there on in...
yeah what an athelete! he contributes his energy from junk food, tim tams and KFC are his favs.lol
these guys look so funny. there have Arnold Schwarzeneggger's legs but his mothers upper body's. lol
http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/055482news.jpg

one of the remaining medals will come from big jana P tommorrow at 4;55am. she will get a medal but i dont think it will be gold.


i really missed tatiana this year
http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/gallery/0288gallery.jpg

Ahh too bad about M. Diamond.

But 14 gold now...two more to match Sydney.

There's always that dumb 50km walk. Might get a medal there. And then there is good chances in the baseball (silver guaranteed), womens basketball, and men's hockey. Girls water polo may get bronze but that's a tough one.

Gday

Do we have any more realistic chances of gold this olympics ? What about cycling tonite ?

I hope Lauren Jackson carries on in the basketball and we beat the Yanks ! God that would be bloody fantastic to knock them off ! They are so Bloody Arrgant and Patriotic that it makes me sick and shits me to tears !! :cry:

Lozza :bowtie:

lozza-you better believe it!

day 12 semis and finals

track-Jana p in hurdles final
cycling-8 lap keirin with ryan bayley and also Madison
hockey-mens semi against spain
Triathlon-L Harrop
beach volleyball-Aussie men are playing for bronze
Kayak-lots of semis
Basketball- undefeated opals play NZ in semis
weighlifting-105kg class

Havn't heard much about sailing this Olympics. In Sydney we got 2 gold (mens & womens 470 class). Maybe we can pick up a medal or two there.

I hope Lauren Jackson carries on in the basketball and we beat the Yanks ! God that would be bloody fantastic to knock them off ! They are so Bloody Arrgant and Patriotic that it makes me sick and shits me to tears !! :cry:

Lozza :bowtie:


LOL, :)

Yes.THEY are, aren't THEY?

To quote Tays in another thread.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

:)

Silver in the Womens Tri-athlon to Loretta Harrop.

She was just beaten with a few metres to go, I don't think she realised the Austrian women was closing so fast.

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^^ If there is a god, She is Austrian.

Nah, the Austrian representative was born in Geelong and her family still lives there. We'll claim half the bloody medal in this case especially since her adopted country is almost spelt the same.

DAMN!!!! i cant believe harrop was winning the whole 2 hr race and lost it in the cruelest of circumstances!! with metres to go.
just like in Sydney Olympics!
man why didnt she keep looking around to see where the others where???then she could of put up the pace.
i dont think she looked once. did she think she was so far in front?
man some say silver is the worst of all medals! she deserved the bloody gold!
not happy

Another Gold in the cycling to Graeme Brown and Stuart O'Grady in the men's madison, which is a damn confusing and complicated kind of race.

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And another in the mens cycling Keirin (Japanese for fight) for Ryan Bayley

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And another in the mens cycling Keirin (Japanese for fight) for Ryan Bayley

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the spanish and malaysian riders relegated due to causing the french man to crash ...

giving STUART KELLY a well deserved Bronze medal


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we move to third spot.
relying on the aussie teams in the team sport semis now..
basketball women into quarters. mens hockey into semis.

mens baseball final soon.. aus assured a gold or silver

Canoe and Kayaking finals still to go

CAN AUS GET 20 GOLD? well have to wait and see!

PS. GO JANA!!!!!

Jana finishes 5th. :(

Silver in the Baseball, losing the final 6-2 to Cuba. Great effort from the guys to get into the final.

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oh well she gave it all. i dont think she even looked like winning. i suppose 5th in Olympic final isnt too shabby
http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/055528tn.jpg

also this is Australia's best ever performance at an Olympics!!!
1 more medal then Atlanta!

That bloody 'Austrian' chick Kate Allen !!! What a rip !!! She married a bar-owner at an Austrian ski resort so now she runs for Austria ??? Puh-leeez .. so why didn't Bettina Hoy ride for Australia then (on an Aussie Horse) if she married an Aussie guy ???

Pass me a plate Roy !!!

http://thedream.seven.com.au/images/index_10.jpg

LOL - I got an SMS which said as much printed on the ticker on Channel 71 Digital Olympic Program Guide !! :D

Anyway at least we finally overtook those Judo-loving Jap's - but now Ruskia is breathing down our next jumping to 14 gold overnight (and way more total medals).

If we can finish 4th at these games behing USA,China,Russia it will be mission accomplished! Already our most successful games easily outside of Oz and equal best ever gold medal results!

also this is Australia's best ever performance at an Olympics!!!
1 more medal then Atlanta!

im sure u mean an "away" Olympics cause we won a tad more in Sideni.

Anyways Jana gave it her all. At one stage i thought she'd pull off the miracle but that Greek lady came storming past the final bend and Jana had nothing left in the tank.

Her time at last years world champs would have won her silver.

But she'll be back... bigger and better!

Yeah , we have to be happy with last nites effort , but i though that we copped a bit of bad luck in that baseball game against Cuba actually ! Some of the decisions at crucial points of the game prooved to be really costly !

Oh well , at least the Septic Tanks ( Yanks ) didn't beat us ! If they had have beaten us (you guessed it ) it would have shit me to absolute tears :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:





Cheers

Lozza :bowtie:

16 Gold medals at the time of writing...thats equal with the gold we won in Sydney which I believe is our greatest ever gold medal haul. 1 more to break the record.

What an effort from the Aussies, sitting in 3rd spot. Not bad for a country of 20 million.

yeah sydney was 16G,25S,17B-tot-58, compared to current-16G, 11S,15B-tot 42
So Gold is most important and weve equaled it with a few more to come, so this Olympics will be our most successful!

janas just 21, just wait for 4 more years of maturity. she will crap on her nearest rivals come beijing!

hey Opals beat NZ last night in lead up to semis, 99-55. still undefeated

http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/054384news.jpg

From olympics.com (great site!)

http://users.bigpond.net.au/speckled10/peryear.gif

And of course at the moment - Day 13 of 16 - we are:

2004 16 11 15 42

So it is clearly already our best ever Olympics outside Oz !!

Also the per-sport breakdown:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/speckled10/persport.gif

The Cycling category will be getting a big boost with 6-2-2 in these olympics !! 5 Gold in Track and 1 in Road !!

Get rid of the outliers (statistical term for out of the ordinary which affects the average), those being the two times we have hosted the games in 1956 and 2000, and then look at our pevious best result in terms of gold medals won, which was 9 in Atlanta in 1996, then you start to realise how successful we have been in these games.

Also, not that alot of people will care, but Australia has for the past few Commonwealth Games been dominant. With the current form shown by our Game's team, together with the fact Australia hosts the Comm Games in 2006, it could be a muderisation as far as the medal table goes, moreso than ever before.

Just looking at that medal table above, posted by A-brain, I was thinking who the hell won a gold medal for Australia in tennis? Then I realised...the Woodies, lol. Legends.

Also, I noted with interest no gold in Boxing. Jeff fenech would cringe looking at that table.

And 3 gold medals in hockey, thanks to our women. Be nice if the men won one this year to add to that. And obviously swimming is what we do best.

Yeah, the next Comm Games are gonna be even more of a mickey mouse competition medal wise, Australia is gonna win a medal in every event. Last games AUS won over 200.

realistically i think we only have 2 more medals these olympics...

the mens hockey final... either a gold or silver.

and the womens basketball... they SHOULD get through to the final to verse the USA for a gold or silver.

WELL DONE AUSSIES!

You are forgetting about the Kayacking. There is 3 chances for gold there. Oh, and the walk maybe.

oh well, we got disqualified from mens 50km walk. bummer
we even got a bronze today without trying. the womens sculls who came 4th got a bronze due to a team being done for drugs.

Of course, the gold in men's hockey - finally. Good to get the monkey off the back and at the same time surpass Sydney with more gold in total.

yeah what a goal by jamie Dwyer!
http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/055638news.jpg
also
Australian Nathan Baggaley has secured a silver medal in the final of the men's K1 500-metre kayak race on Lake Schinias

http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/055669tn.jpg

i reckon we have a great chance of beating USA tonight for gold medal in womens basketball.
http://www.sportal.com.au/photos/news/055637news.jpg

wow, we come from 5th to get silver in k1000 with clint robinson & nath Bageley!

2nd in the K2 rowing, dunno how far, and also 2nd in K1 rowing, gold in mens hocky, and we won against brazil in womens basketball. w00t for the aussies!

half time in opals v USA its usa 29-26. were not playing as good as we have been, , if we did we would be in front. anyway going ok. we must get ahead instead of trailing.
i think it our big guns get going we will win. will be close.

We lost 74-63 which is the best weve come to beating the Americans. Thats good. Hopefully over the next four years, we can build up the team to beat these folks.

The highlight of the day would have to be the Aussie's claming silver in the mens 4 x 400 metre relay where we took our first atheltics relay medal since 1956. :) :cheers: America won as usual.

Also Mathew Helm took silver in the 10 metre springboard regulating a chinese diver to third and denying the favourite - Canada's Alexandre Despatie a medal. It means that all but one of divers will return back to oz with a medal.

Despite not winning gold, it was a good day overall for the Aussies.

The medal count now stands at 49, with 17 gold, 16 Silver & 16 Bronze.

I thought the officiating of the basketball in this tornament was 3rd class. Generally speaking, Australia got the bulk of the bad calls and at really critical times. Put it this way, if those calls went Australia's way there probably would had been only a few points in it. Andrew Gaze was frustrated by the French ref who called the ball out by the Aussie's when it was so obvious it wasn't.

But, congrats to the US as I think they were probably the better team on the night but the officiating was a punch in the guts more for the Aussie's at the critical times.

Still, a silver night all up. 5 silvers and a real surprise in the 4x100m athletics. That came out of left field.

We had to get our Silver count up and the Aussies did that yesterday!

GOOD JOB!

The mens 4x400 would have to be the sweetest seeing it was unexpected.

also feel sorry for the only aus diver not taking home a medal.... steve barnett?

yeah, it was Opals most disapointing effort thus far. only if they had played like they did for whole of O games. with ref calls against them, they also seemed to miss alot of goals and never went for 3 pointers, which USA did all the time due to a our great defence.i really thought we had them when we were up by 4 points, but we let them in. damn!!!
i hate loosing!
as for 400m relays, real suprise! good stuff.
so i think medals are
G17
S16
B16
49
anymore to be won>>??

Nup, end of story unless there is a miracle in the marathon. Still, 4th on the ladder aint to shabby for 20.17 million yobbo's :)

latest news is Petria Thomas is to carry flag in closing ceremony! what a games shes had at our greatest games ever!

Yeah, the next Comm Games are gonna be even more of a mickey mouse competition medal wise, Australia is gonna win a medal in every event. Last games AUS won over 200.
I could not agree more, 15 years ago it was a very even comp with the three big guns, the UK, Canada and Oz all collecting a similar grab of medals with the host team usual a few more. Now it is a joke and a complete waste of money, what does it prove to kick the ass of other commonwealth countries, we have out grown them in the sporting arena and should opt out.

I can not believe Victorians are getting so excited about hosting the games, I mean who really cares??? I hear Melbourne will hold the world tidily winks championships soon and I'm sure it will be the best ever!! Way to go Melbourne. :sleepy:

man what a crap way of ending the games with that irish guy tackling the leader in marathon. :bash:


AUSTRALIAN MEDALS


GOLD (17):
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Swimming - Ian Thorpe (400m freestyle)
Swimming - Women's 4x100m freestyle relay (Alice Mills, Libby Lenton, Petria Thomas, Jodie Henry)
Cycling - Sara Carrigan (road race)
Swimming - Petria Thomas (100m butterfly)
Shooting - Suzanne Balogh (trap)
Swimming - Ian Thorpe (200m freestyle)
Swimming - Jodie Henry (100m freestyle)
Cycling - Anna Meares (500m time trial)
Rowing - James Tomkins / Drew Ginn (coxless pair)
Swimming - Grant Hackett (1500m freestyle)
Swimming - Women's 4x100m medley relay (Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas, Jodie Henry)
Diving - Chantelle Newbery (10m platform)
Cycling - Men's 4000m team pursuit (Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, Brad McGee, Luke Roberts)
Cycling - Ryan Bayley (Men's sprint)
Cycling - Stuart O'Grady and Graeme Brown (Madison)
Cycling - Ryan Bayley (Kierin)
Hockey - Men's team (Michael Brennan, Travis Brooks, Dean Butler, Liam De Young, Jamie Dwyer, Nathan Eglington, Troy Elder, Bevan George, Robert Hammond, Mark Hickman, Mark Knowles, Brent Livermore, Michael McCann, Stephen Mowlam, Grant Schubert, Matthew Wells)
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SILVER (16):
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Swimming - Grant Hackett (400m freestyle)
Swimming - Men's 4x200m relay team (Grant Hackett, Michael Klim, Nicholas Sprenger, Ian Thorpe)
Swimming - Petria Thomas (200m butterfly)
Swimming - Brooke Hanson (100m breaststroke)
Swimming - Leisel Jones (200m breaststroke)
Cycling - Brad McGee (4000m individual pursuit)
Rowing - Men's lightweight four (Glen Loftus, Anthony Edwards, Ben Cureton, Simon Burgess)
Softball (Sandra Allen, Marissa Carpadios, Fiona Crawford, Amanda Doman, Peta Edebone, Tanya Harding, Natalie Hodgskin, Simmone Morrow, Tracey Mosley, Stacey Porter, Melanie Roche, Natalie Titcume, Natalie Ward, Brooke Wilkins, Kerry Wyborn)
Cycling - Katie Mactier (3000m individual pursuit)
Triathlon - Loretta Harrop
Baseball (Craig Anderson, Thomas Brice, Adrian Burnside, Gavin Fingleson, Paul Gonzalez, Nick Kimpton, Brendan Kingman, Craig Lewis, Graeme Lloyd, David Nilsson, Trent Oeltjen, Wayne Ough, Chris Oxspring, Brett Roneberg, Ryan Rowland Smith, John Stephens, Phillip Stockman, Brett Tamburrino, Richard Thompson, Andrew Utting, Rodney van Buizen, Ben Wigmore, Glenn Williams, Jeff Williams)
Kayaking - Nathan Baggaley (K1 500m)
Kayaking - Nathan Baggaley / Clint Robinson (K2 500m)
Basketball - Women's team (Suzy Batkovic, Sandra Brondello, Trish Fallon, Kristi Harrower, Lauren Jackson, Natalie Porter, Alicia Poto, Belinda Snell, Rachael Sporn, Laura Summerton, Penelope Taylor, Allison Tranquilli)
Diving - Mathew Helm (10m platform)
Athletics - Men's 4x400m relay (John Steffensen, Mark Ormrod, Patrick Dwyer, Clinton Hill)
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BRONZE (16):
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Diving - Irina Lashko / Chantelle Newbery (3m synchro)
Diving - Mathew Helm / Robert Newbery (10m synchro)
Shooting - Adam Vella (trap)
Diving - Robert Newbery / Steve Barnett (3m synchro)
Swimming - Ian Thorpe (100m freestyle)
Archery - Tim Cuddihy (men's individual)
Swimming - Leisel Jones (100m breaststroke)
Athletics - Nathan Deakes (20km walk)
Tennis - Alicia Molik (women's singles)
Swimming - Libby Lenton (50m freestyle)
Rowing - Women's lightweight quadruple sculls (Dana Faletic, Rebecca Sattin, Kerry Hore, Amber Bradley)
Rowing - Men's eight (Stefan Szczurowski, Stuart Reside, Stuart Welch, James Stewart, Geoff Stewart, Boden Hanson, Mike Mckay, Steve Stewart, Michael Toon)
Diving - Loudy Tourky (10m platform)
Athletics - Jane Saville (20km walk)
Cycling - Anna Meares (Women's sprint)
Cycling - Shane Kelly (Kierin)

another record. Australia have set a record for best performance by a nation after hosting the games previously!

Gday,

The highlight of the games for me by far was seeing The Yanks losing to Argentina in the Semis of the Mens Basketball !

I loved that LEGEND Argentinian Player who "Slam Dunked" it right on that Yank at the very end of the game too ! What a Legend ! But most importantly , what an insult to the so called Dream Team ! :rock:

Cheers

Lozza !:bowtie:

another record. Australia have set a record for best performance by a nation after hosting the games previously!

Cul, are you sure about that, surely the US after LA 1984 or Atlanta 1996 won more medals.

Cul, are you sure about that, surely the US after LA 1984 or Atlanta 1996 won more medals.
nope. USA failed both times to improve after they hosted games-
USA Tally
Los Angeles-G83 S61 B30 total-174
Seoul-G36 S31 B27 total-94 (post home games)

Atlanta-G44 S32 B25 total-101
Sydney-G39 S25 B33 total-97 (post home games)

As you can see after LA Games, USA only come home with half the medals & they came 3rd .
Also at the sydney games, USA failed again to improve ther home tally.

So Australiawinning more gold then previous home games is a fantastic feat!!!!

Oh, you mean improved performance, after hosting a games.

On another matter, I'm never sure about how medals are ranked. Should it always be by Gold first, or by all medals?

Did a nation getting 1 Gold, have a better Olympics than a country with say 4 Silvers and a Bronze (such as UAE vs North Korea this year), or in the case of NZ with 5 medals (3 gold) being higher than Belarus with 15 medals (2 gold).

nope. USA failed both times to improve after they hosted games-
USA Tally
Los Angeles-G83 S61 B30 total-174
Seoul-G36 S31 B27 total-94 (post home games)

Atlanta-G44 S32 B25 total-101
Sydney-G39 S25 B33 total-97 (post home games)

As you can see after LA Games, USA only come home with half the medals & they came 3rd .
Also at the sydney games, USA failed again to improve ther home tally.

So Australiawinning more gold then previous home games is a fantastic feat!!!!

i guess 83 golds in LA due to the boycott of Russia and its allies.

Oh, you mean improved performance, after hosting a games.

On another matter, I'm never sure about how medals are ranked. Should it always be by Gold first, or by all medals?

Did a nation getting 1 Gold, have a better Olympics than a country with say 4 Silvers and a Bronze (such as UAE vs North Korea this year), or in the case of NZ with 5 medals (3 gold) being higher than Belarus with 15 medals (2 gold).
its all about GOLD!! its always been listed in order of gold medals not how many bronze or silver.the way it should be. minor medals are not viewed as much. i reckon there should be a "tin" medal for 4th place! lol nothing worse then coming 4th amissing out on medals. The hardest 4th place must be marathon race!!

Geez i wish Australia had a population of 100 million people !

Imagine the Gold Medal Tally then ! :rock: :banana: :cucumber: :pepper: :banana2: :lock:

Cheers

Lozza :bowtie: